Their second album finds Paris-based Carousel Vertigo - three native French rockers and an American - doing what this band does best and loves the most. Carousel Vertigo's masterful take on rock, the band's innate understanding of the history of rock's past and a vision of its future, has attracted some stellar accomplices on evenge of Rock and Roll' - not least among them Garry Tallent, long-serving bass player with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, who happily guested on one of the album's ten tracks. The lyrical reach of those songs ranges from the rallying call of the title track to, on Don't Take It To Heart', a hometown point of view on the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015. The nucleus of the band, Parisian Vincent Martinez and New Jersey son Jansen Press, formed Carousel Vertigo purely out of a shared love of classic rock. Although each came from a different culture and country, they were instantly united by the other's ability to express that music in different but complementary ways - and a dual-lead guitar partnership of virtuosity and instinct was born. Riding above it all, Vincent's vocal - one moment a pure, hair-raising wail, the next soulful and sweetly emotive honey - establishes Carousel Vertigo as the real deal.
